Handbook of Transdisciplinarity: Global Perspectives

Edited by Roderick J. Lawrence, Honorary Professor, Geneva School of Social Sciences and Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Contents:

Foreword xxix
Alfonso Montuori
Acknowledgements xxxix
Roderick J. Lawrence
Introduction 1
Roderick J. Lawrence

PART I EPISTEMOLOGIES, PHILOSOPHIES, AND THEORIES
1 The promise of scaffolding: a metaphor and living practice for
transdisciplinary inquiry 28
Pia Andersson and Henrietta Palmer
2 Transdisciplinarity as it emerges: a living-systems perspective 44
Danielle Davelaar
3 The public epistemic role of higher education for all 62
Su-ming Khoo
4 The pertinence of transdisciplinarity for global studies: the case of
globalization 79
Amentahru Wahlrab
5 Addressing power relations in the global field of science 95
Petra Dannecker
6 Cross-pollination in art and science: plasticity of the mind and birth of
transcultures 111
Marc-Williams Debono
7 New pragmatics and hermeneutics of self, knowledge, and society:
transdisciplinarity, trans-civilizational dialogues, and planetary conversations 128
Ananta Kumar Giri

PART II PRAXIS
8 Transdisciplinary practice: being, doing, knowing 145
David Adams and Kate Maguire
9 Emergence of transdisciplinarity in global environmental change
research: moving from system understanding to systemic sustainability
solutions 159
Rik Leemans and Karen Fortuin
10 Navigating knowledge systems to address resilience challenges:
contributions of communities of practice 177
Corina Angheloiu, Shuchi Vora and Mike Tennant
11 The transdisciplinary potential of citizen science 197
Alexandra Albert, Muki Haklay, Fabien Moustard, Susanne Hecker,
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Marina Chang and Ariel B. Lindner
12 Real-world Labs as transdisciplinary learning environments 214
Richard Beecroft
13 Transdisciplinary teams as discourse coalitions: building transformative
narratives for transdisciplinary inquiry 230
Chris Riedy
14 Formative developmental evaluation: a transdisciplinary urban
regeneration project in London, UK 247
Gemma Moore, Irene Pluchinotta, Helen Pineo, David Osrin, Nici
Zimmermann, Giuseppe Salvia and Michael Davies

PART III PEDAGOGY AND TRAINING
15 Collaborating for good: what would a transdisciplinary university look like? 267
Michael F. Mascolo
16 Advancing transdisciplinary research in the Global South 286
Katsia Paulavets, Sarah Moore and Mathieu Denis
17 Transdisciplinarity in higher education: the potential of digitalization 306
Theres Paulsen, Jakob Zinsstag and Lisa Crump
18 Transdisciplinary education and ATLAS activities: past, present, and
future perspectives 319
Atila Ertas, Raymond T. Yeh, Bob Block and David Block

PART IV A GLOBAL SAMPLE OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
19 Value-added transdisciplinary One Health research and problem solving 333
Jakob Zinsstag, Kristina Pelikan, Monica Berger Gonzalez, Andrea
Kaiser-Grolimund, Lisa Crump, Stephanie Mauti, Kathrin Heitz-Tokpa,
Bassirou Bonfoh, Seid Mohammed Ali, Rahma Abtidon and Rea Tschopp
20 Engaging in transformative spaces: a design perspective 351
Aniek Hebinck, Timo von Wirth, Giorgia Silvestri and Laura Pereira
21 Amidst the flyway: co-designing accommodation fields for the barnacle
goose in south-eastern Finland 367
Juha Hiedanpää, Matti Salo, Mikko Jokinen, Jani Pellikka, Ron Store, Toni
Laaksonen, Mika Pirinen, Wieland Heim, Antti Piironen, Nina Mikander,
Hanne Lohilahti and Jukka T. Forsman
22 Schola’s action program: modernizing and sustaining public schools in
Quebec 384
Carole Després, Claude Demers, Caroline Gagnon, Pierre Larochelle,
Frédérick Lépinay, André Potvin and Sarahlou Wagner-Lapierre
23 Children as research actors: theories, methods, and experimentation 403
Frédéric Darbellay and Zoe Moody
24 Transdisciplinarity at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,
Kyoto, Japan 419
Tetsuzo Yasunari, Yasuhisa Kondo, Ria Lambino, Hein Mallee, Yuko Onishi,
Makoto Taniguchi and Ichiro Tayasu
25 Implementing sustainability in Taipei with transdisciplinarity 436
Liling Huang, Shang-Hsien Hsieh, Yun-Tsui Chang, Kuan-Chieh Chen and
Qile Dong
26 Co-producing urban and peri-urban agriculture in Andean countries 455
Jaime Hernández-García and Tannya Pico Parra
27 Reconceptualizing stakeholders and decentering collaborations:
reflections from the Lagos housing sector 474
Basirat Oyalowo
28 Implementing transdisciplinarity in the Caucasus region: societal
conditions, institutional transitions, and perspectives 492
Tamara Mitrofanenko, Tigran Keryan, Nina Shatberashvili, Lana Ghvinjilia
and Ulli Vilsmaier

PART V RESOURCES
29 Resourcing transdisciplinary programs and projects 513
Erica Key
30 Global alliance for inter- and transdisciplinarity: connecting
organizations to advance collaborative research and education 525
Stephen M. Fiore, Julie Thompson Klein, Ulli Vilsmaier, Machiel Keestra and
Theres Paulsen
31 Toolkits for transdisciplinary research: state of the art, challenges, and
potentials for further developments 536
Sibylle Studer and Christian Pohl
32 Does transdisciplinarity need an underpinning discipline? The case for
Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) 547
Gabriele Bammer

PART VI PROSPECTS
33 Prospects for transdisciplinarity and beyond: collectively keeping the
future in mind 560
Valerie A. Brown and John A. Harris
34 Digital Life Norway – should biotechnology be transdisciplinary? 575
Maria Bårdsen Hesjedal, Trygve Brautaset and Roger Strand
35 What futures for transdisciplinarity in nuclear R&D? 592
Catrinel Turcanu, Gaston Meskens, Robbe Geysmans, Joke Kenens, Marika
Silvikko de Villafranca and Tanja Perko
Epilogue: globalizing transdisciplinarity 609
Julie Thompson Klein

Index 619